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 Katherine Chen
Field Placement: Solid Ground (Seattle, WA)
Katherine worked to increase Rainier Valley residents' access to fresh and affordable produce. Through focus groups and interviews, she assessed how to best enhance economic opportunities while making healthy food options more readily available. She also established the Rainer Valley Growers’ Co-operative to promote farmers markets, urban agriculture, and other community supported projects.
Hunger Free Community Report: Rainier Valley Food Action Project: Increasing Access to Fresh Produce explores various entrepreneurial and agricultural models that Southeast Seattle could adopt to increase community members’ access to fresh fruits and vegetables.
Policy Placement: Association of Nutrition Services Agencies (Washington, D.C.)
Katherine is developing a grassroots advocacy guide for ANSA members and other community-based food and nutrition services programs to use in educating policymakers about the power of nutrition in combating disease. Katherine is also researching the history of the 1969 White House Conference on Food and Nutrition.
Education and Experience: Katherine, a San Francisco native, is a 2007 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley where she majored in public health and minored in public policy. She has researched the role of school gardens in urban middle schools with large minority populations and the impact of particulate matter pollution on elementary school students. Katherine also interned in Senator Tom Harkin’s office through the Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program.
 Brad Johnson
Field Placement: Solid Ground (Seattle, WA)
Brad conducted a household food security assessment of low-income seniors and persons with disabilities living in subsidized housing. Through surveys, focus groups, and interviews, Brad documented the degree to which residents experience hunger, identified contributing factors that cause hunger, and developed strategies to increase access to the emergency food system.
Hunger Free Community Report: The Food Security for Seniors and Persons with Disabilities Project provides city-level data on food insecurity among seniors and persons with disabilities living in Seattle’s subsidized housing. The report also identifies the barriers that prevent these populations from utilizing the emergency food system and provides recommendations on ways to increase access to the system for isolated and vulnerable adults.
Policy Placement: National Council of La Raza (Washington, D.C.)
As part of the Health Policy team, Brad is working to convene a child nutrition roundtable discussion at La Raza’s annual conference that will incorporate the perspectives of Hispanic serving community-based organizations, researchers, advocates, and other major stakeholders. He is also developing a paper analyzing the trends of poor nutrition and hunger and their co-mobidities among Latino children.
Education and Experience: Brad is a 2007 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he earned a degree in politics and public policy analysis and a minor in social and economic justice. He studied abroad in South Korea and was named a Public Policy and International Affairs Fellow in 2006. Brad served as a teaching assistant in the School of Social Work and worked with the Southwest Central Durham Quality of Life Project. He also conducted an impact analysis of community gardens in Durham public housing communities and implemented a photography research project in the Kibera slum near Nairobi, Kenya.
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